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Rh "You'd better take two hands, perhaps," said Alberto, politely. "It pulls more evenly that way."

So Ralph took both hands, braced himself, smiled to think how the little foreigner would come flying through the air, exerted all his strength, and, to his intense surprise, arose gracefully, but most unwillingly, to his feet. He was beaten; and the little foreigner was actually chuckling at him.

"You 're too heavy to be very strong," remarked Alberto, critically.

"Well, I guess you'd find me all you'd want to tackle!" said Ralph, testily, for he was unused to this style of criticism, and found it too frank to be agreeable.

"How do you mean?" asked the other.